June 16 - 17
Empire State Plaza, Convention Center,
Albany, NY
The Annual NYS Cyber Security Conference is organized jointly by the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) and the NYS Office of Cyber Security & Critical Infrastructure Coordination. The event is funded entirely through registration fees and the support of the sponsors and exhibitors; [...]
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Chisholm Schools take on cyber-bullying
July 27, 2010FOX 21 News
CHISOLM - The Chisholm School District is cracking down on cyber bullying.
Approved at Monday night’s school board meeting, any bullying which takes place through text, facebook or other social media, will not be tolerated.
Says superintendent, James Varichak, “The courts say that you have to assume that, that bullying is taking place at school, too. And, so we have to be into the public more than we had before. Before, we used to be on our own little island, taking care of what happened on school grounds. That’s not the case any longer.”
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Students ‘sexting’ pose problems
July 26, 2010By Michael Rizzo
Buffalo News
The principal of Lewiston-Porter Middle School recently suspended several of his male students who passed along a sexually illicit video—created on a cell phone — after school hours.
Principal Vincent Del’Osso investigated the students upon receiving reports of their behavior, Lew-Port Superintendent Chris Roser said, and police were notified.
“Nothing shocks me anymore,” Roser said, “but it’s a disappointment. And it’s disappointing that it keeps happening younger and younger. It’s just as vile and disgusting as it would be for older people.”
It seems the days of passing love notes that say, “Check yes or no” are on the way out, school officials said, and the advent of sexy-texts, or sexting, is posing a new batch of problems for administrators.
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‘Sexting’ surges nationwide, and it’s not just teens doing it
July 21, 2010By STEPHANIE STEINBERG
Daily Record
Teen “sexting” is on the rise, but teens aren’t the only age group sending naked pictures of themselves to others via text message.
In a new survey of 1,017 teens and 1,049 parents nationwide, 28 percent of the parents say they engage in sexting, including sending texts with sexual content or nude pictures of themselves.
Charles Sophy, a child and family psychiatrist in Beverly Hills, Calif., says many of his patients who are parents engage in sexting, and not always with their partners.
“It’s a new and exciting way, for lack of a better term, to explore and express themselves when marriages are in bad spots,” says Sophy, who is on the advisory council for LG Text Ed, a program of LG Mobile Phones, sponsor of the survey.
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Schools and parents have a role in ending cyberbullying
The Washington Post
LACK OF MATURITY, lack of supervision, and technology that can transmit messages instantly to millions of people: This is the volatile cocktail that lies at the root of cyberbullying. Today’s high school and middle school students have been texting, e-mailing, instant messaging and posting on Facebook since they could reach a keyboard. But when this extensive technological knowledge combines with the raging hormones, limited impulse control and failure to understand consequences that mark the teenage years, the results can be devastating.
Cyberbullies can be popular “mean girls” or tech-savvy loners who use their skills to wreak havoc on a social hierarchy that excludes them. Bullying can be intentional or inadvertent — a message accidentally forwarded, a remark taken out of context. It can be a minor annoyance or, drawing in strangers through hate speech or provocative images, it can escalate far beyond the schoolyard. Because of all these factors, it is difficult to craft a one-size-fits-all rule or policy.
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Stopping cyberbullying in Albany County
July 13, 2010Mean or threating messages can appear on your phone or on the computer. They can be sent from people you probably already know. It’s called cyberbullying and some local teens say they’ve been victims of it.
“Text messages,” said one teen who’s recieved them. “Not so much on the computer but over cell phones.”
A group of incoming Bethlehem High freshmen say teasing and bullying have moved online. It’s something these students actually studied in middle school. They say it’s easy for kids to hide behind a computer.
